Overdose deaths ran 19.3 per 100,000 residents across 51 states (12 months to April 2026)
65,726 overdose deaths were recorded in the 12 months to April 2026, against 340,110,990 residents of the 51 states the two datasets both cover. Civic Forecast calculation from CDC provisional overdose counts and Census ACS 2024 population. A crude rate, not age-adjusted like CDC's own, and provisional counts are revised as investigations close.
Induced by API Automations for Civic Forecast from federal open data. Each finding names the datasets it was computed from. How this is calculated.